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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY T. YVINDT, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WIRE FABRIC.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,903, dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed January 11, 1886. Serial No. 188,172.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY THEODORE WINDT, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fabric Designed more Especially for Door-Mats, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is'to produce a fabric particularly adapted for use as a doormat, in that it presents a surface similar to a series of scrapers; and it consists, essentially, of a fabric formed of a series of coils linked together parallel with each other, and braced by a similar series of coils screwed into the mat at about right angles to the first series of coils.

Figure 1 is an enlarged plan of my improved mat complete. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan of a portion of the mat, showing the manner of forming the fabric; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the fabric. Fig. 4 is an end view of the mat.

To form this fabric I take a series of coils, A, and link them together parallel with each other, as shown. The fabric thus formed of these coils A is braced by a similar series of coils, B, screwed into the mat at about right angles to the coils A at the point where the connecting coils A intersect each other. The fabric thus formed presents a surface composed of upright scrapers d, as shown in-Fig. 3. I arrange both sets of these coils diagon'ally to the sides of the fabric.

A fabric formed by the coils running diagonally across its surface, as above described, will present scraping-edges (1 upon opposite sides of the fabric and running parallel with the .length of the fabric, audio that way will form a good door-mat, as the scrapers d form a good surface for scraping the feet on. A mat thus formed will not coil up at the corners, and the dirt scraped off will fall through the mat, and canbeeasilyswept awaywhennecessary. The mat, owing to the scrapers d being upon both (ModeL) Patented in Canada April 30, 1884, No. 19,251.

sides of the fabric, can be turned, so that it will last for a very long time. The edges of the fabric formed by the coils A and B are prefera-bly finished as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, the ends a of one coil being bent around the spiral body of the coil next to it, thereby locking the coils together, and at the same forming a finished smooth edge somewhat stiffer than the body of the mat.

R is a stiffener-rod inserted into the mat to stiffen it, and S T are brackets for securing the mat to a floor orstep; but no claim is made in this application to either of these features, as they are covered by the claims in separate applications, dated and numbered, respectively,April 3, 1884, No. 126,489, and January 11, 1886, No. 188,171.

What I claim as my invention is 1. As an improved wire fabric, a series of wire coils, A, linked together, combined with a similar series of coils, B, interwoven with the coils A diagonally to the sides of the fabric and at about right angles to the said coils A, substantially as described.

2. As an improved wire fabric, a series of wire coils, A, linked together parallel with each other, combined with a similar series of coils, B, screwed into the coils A at the point where they intersect each other at about right angles to said coils, and diagonally to the sides of the fabric, substantially as described.

3. As an improved wire fabric, a series of wire coils linked together parallel with each other and braced by a similar series of coils screwed into said coils at about right angles thereto and diagonally to the sides of the fabric, the ends a of each coil being bent around the spiral body of the coil next to it, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, January 4, 1886.

HENRY T. WINDT.

In presence of- CHARLES C. BALDWIN, 1M. J AGKSON. 

